GIRLS CAN KISS NOW,

BY JILL GUTOWITZ

In her first book of essays, Gutowitz chronicles her experience growing up in the 2000s and how pop culture—and the toxic media coverage surrounding it—influenced her journey to come out as queer. Both riotously humorous and deeply affecting, it includes a piece about the crucial moment when Gutowitz first watched Orange Is the New Black and began to accept her own identity and a poignant letter to her past self in which she opens up about an experience with sexual assault. (Atria Books) HB